| Book Review | Western Historical Quarterly, 32.1

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Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900–1940. By Rebecca Sharpless. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. xxiii + 319 pp. Illustrations, map, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

In her poignant account of women living on the cotton farms in the Blacklands region of central Texas, Rebecca Sharpless contributes significantly to the growing body of scholarship on rural women and farm life during the tumultuous years of the early twentieth century. Drawing her inspiration from Margaret Hagood's classic study of North Carolina tenant women, Sharpless paints a portrait that depicts the limited opportunities available for Texas farm women under the crop-lien system, narrowed to a great extent by their gender. Sharpless balances this portrait by describing the ways in which they sought to forge acceptable lives for themselves and their families. . . .

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